Shaikh Ahmed Research Group

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Device Innovation through Scientific Computing

/// Nanoscale and Quantum Device Modeling and Simulation ///

Semiconductor devices are foundation of the electronic industry and the information society. Research in Professor Ahmed’s group at SIU encompasses mainly the area of computational nanoelectronics and involves multiscale modeling of dynamically-coupled charge and phonon transport processes in emerging electronic, photonic, and energy harvesting semiconducting devices. The goal is three-fold: a) better understand the underlying physical processes; b) explore and exploit the enhanced degrees-of-freedom available at nanoscale for performance and reliability optimization; and c) develop cyber-enabled community nanoelectronics simulation software. We make extensive use of advanced algorithms and state-of-the-art high-performance computing cluster and CPU/GPGPU distributed computing platforms.